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Hi, I'm thinking to setup a small shop selling digital downloads for change (think app store prices). I'm looking into the whole distribution question (paypal helps you setup the buy buttons but that does not make the download securely available). Initially I was hoping to integrate it all in my existing website, but now I'm considering a secure download area - but not looking for a ecommerce shop, just an easy to use solution that takes care of the from payment onwards part of the process. Was thinking of using paypal but these solutions also charge a hefty sum which means not much money left, so this is a problem for me too.

Does anyone have any experience in such things and could give me some pointers?

My criteria would probably be similar to many of you:--secure purchasing

--simple, elegant website...professional looking

--easy to setup, minimize the need for a programmer or full-time administrator, something a non-programmer can manage (assuming he is comfortable with computers in general, like I am)

--Hopefully, it doesn't LOOK like a blog. I don't want a purchasing website where it's so obviously a shoehorned blog theme. Even if it's on wordpress, I don't want the blog-look to be obvious, if possible.

I would just use a free eCommerce app. You say you don't want/need an ecommerce "shop", yet it sounds like that's exactly what you need. Without one, you'll be setting up the payments for each item manually in Paypal, and then trying to figure out how to interface Paypal's payment confirmation with a stand-alone secure downloads system, right? Why not just use one of the many free, easy, open source (or not) solutions that automatically integrate with Paypal (and other) payments, and automatically handle security, etc?